1493 woodcut of the City of Basel, from the Nuremberg Chronicle.

Rhodes, from a 1493 woodcut

Bust of Albertus Magnus by Vincenzo Onofri, c. 1493

The earliest painted Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle ( Albrecht Dürer ) | Self-Portrait ( 1493 ) by Albrecht Dürer, oil, originally on vellum ( Louvre, Paris )

The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage to the Americas.

The Dance of Death ( 1493 ) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel.

The Enchiridion was first published in a Latin translation by Poliziano, Rome, 1493, and in 1496, by Beroaldus, at Bologna.

In 1493, he was succeeded by his son Maximilian I after ten years of joint rule.

Hispaniola is the site of the first European colonies in the New World, which were founded by Christopher Columbus on his voyages in 1492 and 1493.

A rebellion by his nephew, Alexander of Lochalsh provoked an exasperated James IV to forfeit the family's lands in 1493.

Incunabula include the Gutenberg Bible of 1455, the Peregrinatio in terram sanctam of 1486 — printed and illustrated by Erhard Reuwich — both from Mainz, the Nuremberg Chronicle written by Hartmann Schedel and printed by Anton Koberger in 1493, and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili printed by Aldus Manutius with important illustrations by an unknown artist.

* Eleonora Gonzaga ( 31 December 1493 – 13 February 1570 ), married Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, by whom she had issue.

It was charted by Columbus in 1493, but Spain had little interest in the territory.

* Discovery to the Eastern World of Puerto Rico by Christopher Columbus on November 19, 1493.

Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.

The first successful settlement of São Tomé was established in 1493 by Álvaro Caminha, who received the land as a grant from the crown.

* 1493 – Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.

The islands were named by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage in 1493 for Saint Ursula and her virgin followers.

Conversely, Elijah Delmedigo ( c. 1458 – c. 1493 ), in his Bechinat ha-Dat endeavored to show that the Zohar could not be attributed to Shimon bar Yochai, arguing that if it were his work, the Zohar would have been mentioned by the Talmud, as has been the case with other works of the Talmudic period, that had bar Yochai known by divine revelation the hidden meaning of the precepts, his decisions on Jewish law from the Talmudic period would have been adopted by the Talmud, that it would not contain the names of rabbis who lived at a later period than that of Simeon ; and that if the Kabbalah was a revealed doctrine, there would have been no divergence of opinion among the Kabbalists concerning the mystic interpretation of the precepts.

* 1493 – Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.

Prester John from Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493

Michael Wolgemut, The Dance of Death ( 1493 ) from the Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel, evoked musically in Saint-Saëns ' Danse macabre.

In 1493, the town is recorded by Hartmann Schedel in his Nuremberg Chronicle as Schwednitz

Image: Schedel judenfeindlichkeit. jpg | Illustration in Hartmann Schedel's Weltchronik, 1493

The Dance of Death ( 1493 ) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel

A view of Strasbourg Cathedral from Hartmann Schedel's Weltchronik ( Nuremberg 1493 ).

Casmirvs ( left ) in a 1493 woodcut from Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle ( view facing west ).

Written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel, with a version in German translation by Georg Alt, it appeared in 1493.

Augsburg, Hartmann Schedel | Schedel ’ sche Weltchronik ( 1493 )

Schedel is best known for his writing the text for the Nuremberg Chronicle, known as Schedelsche Weltchronik ( English: Schedel's World Chronicle ), published in 1493 in Nuremberg.

Image: Schedel konstantinopel. jpg | Constantinople in 1493

The first is the Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichthumer des Heils ( 1491 ); the other is the Historia mundi, by Schedel ( 1493 ), usually known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, which is highly valued, not for the text, but for its remarkable collection of 1809 spirited illustrations.

Woodcut illustration of Cassandra's prophecy of the fall of Troy ( at left ) and her death ( at right ), from an incunable German translation by Heinrich Steinhowel | Heinrich Steinhöwel of Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, printed by Johann Zainer at Ulm ca.

Woodcut for Die Bibel in Bildern, 1860, by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld.

Woodcut from Anton Koberger's Bible ( Nuremberg, 1483 ): The angelically inspired Saint Matthew musters the Old Testament figures, led by Abraham and David

Woodcut from a Diggers document by William Everard ( Digger ) | William Everard.

Woodcut engraving by Giovanni Boccaccio.

Woodcut by Ambrosius Holbein for a 1518 edition of Utopia.

Witches by Hans Baldung Grien ( Woodcut, 1508 )

Woodcut by Albrecht Dürer commemorating the double wedding at the First Congress of Vienna, on 22 July 1515.

Woodcut by Hans Burgkmair, 1507.

Woodcut depicting the stoning of Adoniram, by Johann Christoph Weigel, 1695.

Woodcut by Johann Christoph Weigel depicting the death of Amasa, 1695.

Woodcut by Gustave Doré depicting the burial of Sarah in the cave

" Mararu ": Offerings of gratitude to Tahitian goddess Hina. Woodcut by Paul Gauguin ( 1894 ).

Woodcut by Hans Holbein the Younger from Leland's Naenia ( 1542 ), showing Thomas Wyatt ( poet ) | Sir Thomas Wyatt

Woodcut by Jost Amman, 1568.

The Crab that played with the sea, Woodcut by Rudyard Kipling illustrating one of his Just So Stories.

In Europe, Woodcut is the oldest technique used for old master prints, developing about 1400, by using, on paper, existing techniques for printing on cloth.

Izaak Walton and his scholar. Woodcut by Louis Rhead.

Image: Chushingura. 47ronin. attackingthehouseofkira. print. kunisada. i. 01. obverse. refshot. jpg | Woodcut by Kunisada depicting the attack ( early 1800s ).

Woodcut of Hanno on pamphlet by Philomathes ( Rome, c. 1514 )

Woodcut is mostly used by professional artists, requiring much talent and patience.

Woodcut illustration of a 45 m ( 150 ft ) focal length Keplerian astronomical refracting telescope built by Johannes Hevelius.

Woodcut Kanama Goro Immakuni by Utagawa Kuniyoshi ( National Museum, Warsaw | National Museum, Warsaw )